SilenceInMotion

[SilenceInMotion]

Hello, I am 24 years old from Virginia. This is not the only forum I am enlisted at, and so I have a bit of experience in discussion and debate. I have an undying inclination to speak to other Christians, to share theology and both enlighten and learn to and from others. I happened by this site and saw that others on here enjoy it all the same. Figured I'd sign up and join the community on here.

I am Roman Catholic, newly converted from Protestant doctrine (Baptist by church, Calvinistic by theology).

Anyways, God bless and I look foward to participating with you all :)

 

[joshhuntnm]

welcome to the forum. why did you convert?

 

[SilenceInMotion]

welcome to the forum. why did you convert?

It began a few years back. Being Baptist, Catholcism was something alien to me for a long while. Being Baptist, everyone I knew who was a Christian never had much to say about the Church because they were indoctrinated just the same into reformed Christian notions. You don't really hear much about praying to saints, purgatory and synergism, etc. when you're surrounded around non-Catholic Christians. And so I started to have a natural interest in these big differences.

It was natural for me to do so, because I wasn't born into a Christian family and it took the same amount of vested interest for me to become a Christian in the first place. Before then, I guess I could have been called a skeptic, and perhaps during the late stages, a deist.

I see my entire shift of belief from skepticism to Baptist to my Catholic conversion as a spiritual journey. I believe the Church is where God wants me to be for some reason or another. I started looking upon Catholic dogmas, and dug in deep to their origins. As time went by, I realized I was finding myself favoring the Churches doctrines over others.
And then one day, quite simply, I stopped by a parish. It was unplanned, as I was running some errands. After a few conversations with the priest there, I signed up for RCIA, took the classes, and became a bonafide Catholic.

 

[biggandyy]

I was a Romanist before I converted and became a Baptist (reverse of you). ;)

 

[IanLC]

Hello and welcome to you! We are glad to have you in fellowship with us! We are not perfect people or the perfect forum but we are striving for perfection in Christ Jesus. You will laugh, cry, agrue, rejoice and all on this forum but most of all love! We all do not see eye to eye but we are a community built on Christian love and compassion! Find your fit and get involved! Abundant blessings!!